Icy surfaces impose challenges for northern societies, wildlife and agriculture. However, there have been relatively few studies of the impacts of anoxic ground ice on non-agricultural plants. During the winter of 2009–2010, an extreme winter warming event led to thick ground-ice layer development in the world’s northernmost botanical garden in Tromsø, in subarctic Norway, due to much rain on ...

Amphipod crustaceans were collected at all 55 stations sampled with an epibenthic sledge during two IceAGE expeditions (Icelandic marine Animals: Genetics and Ecology) in 2011 and 2013. In total, 34 amphipod families and three superfamilies were recorded in the samples. Distribution maps are presented for each taxon along with a summary of the regional taxonomy for the group. Statistical analyses ...

Direct evidence of ancient human occupation is typically established through archaeological excavation. Excavations are costly and destructive, and practically impossible in some lake and wetland environments. We present here an alternative approach, providing direct evidence from lake sediments using DNA metabarcoding, steroid lipid biomarkers (bile acids) and from traditional environmental analyses. ...

This thesis is centred on an analysis of collage and détournement as artistic and hermeneutic methodologies in a relatively wide sense. It focuses on how the political and theoretical dimensions of détournement, as defined by Situationist theory and practice, can be seen as parallel to - and amalgamated with - specific forms of occult practice and philosophy, particularly alchemy. Arguing that ...

Trophy hunting in the Arctic happened in an intersection between tourism, expeditions and hunting. This study contributes to a discrete history of masculinity within the context of trophy hunting organized from North Norway and to a broader understanding of Arctic masculinity in general. As trophy hunting expeditions are primarily a male, even masculinist, tourist practice, an analysis from ...

Utravingene I tilknytning til Mauken/Blåtind skytefelt omfattet tolv boplasslokaliteter fordelt over ett ca. 500 dekar stort fjellområde. Totalt 14 unike ildstedsstrukturer ble undersøkt. Utgravingene tok sikte på å åpne opp større arealer rundt ildstedene enn hva som har vært vanlig tidligere, noe som ga resultater i form av boligavgrensning for syv av lokalitetene. Det ble til sammen avdekt 280 ...

I arbeidet med Rødlista for tovinger er 2748 arter vurdert, og av disse er 379 arter (13,8 %) rødlistet. De fleste tovingene på Rødlista 2021 er knyttet til skog. Tovinger er en av de største ordenene av insekter i Norge, trolig med opp mot 10 000 arter, og kunnskapen er fortsatt svært mangelfull for flere av familiene. Det er gjort en del endringer i denne utgaven av Rødlista for tovinger, og noen ...

Biodiversity assessments are indispensable tools for planning and monitoring conservation strategies. Camera traps (CT) are widely used to monitor wildlife and have proven their usefulness. Environmental DNA (eDNA)-based approaches are increasingly implemented for biomonitoring, combining sensitivity, high taxonomic coverage and resolution, non-invasiveness and easiness of sampling, but remain ...

Avipoxviruses (APVs) belong to the Chordopoxvirinae subfamily of the Poxviridae family. APVs are distributed worldwide and cause disease in domestic, pet and wild birds of many species. APVs are transmitted by aerosols and biting insects, particularly mosquitoes and arthropods and are usually named after the bird species from which they were originally isolated. The virus species Fowlpox virus (FWPV) ...

Til tross for at like mange kvinner og menn uteksamineres fra de utøvende musikkutdanningene i Norge, er toppstillingsnivået fortsatt dominert av menn. Selv om forskning på likestilling viser at lederforankring er avgjørende for endring av kjønnsubalansen i en organisasjon, er det til nå få studier som undersøker holdninger til kjønnsubalanse og likestillingstiltak blant ledere i akademia. Denne ...